The influence of family on the decline of the number of children in Europe since 1850.

Hilde Bras (born in 1968) bases her interdisciplinary, comparative research into family relationships, kinship, and demographic behaviour on theories and methods drawn from family history, demography, sociology, and anthropology. She uses large databases drawing on historical records and qualitative sources such as ego-documents and folktales. Bras also regularly communicates her research results to a larger audience in the form of films, exhibitions, presentations, and publications.